R&D
Our Research & Development projects

ROLEPL-AI is a European collaborative project whose purpose is to design and test an integrated set of tools based on immersive technology, artificial intelligence and pedagogical practice, for the benefit of tourism vocational education and training. The project aims to train soft skills remotely, by pushing practice through the implementation of an AI-based simulation, as well as the use of an immersive environment, the virtual campus, to host this exchange.

This research programme brings together five entities, spread over three countries, and is supported by the European ERASMUS+ programme. Manzalab and its subsidiary Manzavision are responsible for creating the application.

VR-DECISION is a project aiming at studying the impact of immersive technologies on the collaborative process underlying the decision-making cycle. For this purpose, this environment will allow remote experts to meet virtually in order to plan an operation thanks to collaborative tools.

This virtual planning center also aims to facilitate mutual understanding of situations and therefore decision-making by using 3D representations of information and resources.

VR-DECISION is funded by the DGA RAPID program.

INFINITY aims to transform the traditional idea of criminal investigation and analysis using immersive and collaborative environments. INFINITY's concept is based around four core research and technical innovations that together, will provide a revolutionary approach and convert data into actionable intelligence.

Infinity’s investigative immersive and interactive collaboration environment (I3CE) provides LEAs with methods and tools to prevent, detect, analyse and combat criminal activities faster and more successfully by enhancing shared situational awareness and decision-making. Ultimately, these capabilities will bring about a paradigm shift in the capacity of EU Member States (MS) in the fight against cybercrime and terrorism while putting in place governance processes to maintain full compliance with fundamental rights and protecting privacy and personal data.

O&SR is a European collaborative project whose objective is to promote a good study culture and increase completion rates. To this aim, the partners will develop and test an application for students integrating a follow-up with well-being surveys. This application will be available online and on mobile phones. It will itself use game mechanics. The target users are NEETs and student counsellors in Europe.

The research program gathers six organisations from five countries and is supported by ERASMUS+ funding. Manzavision is responsible for the creation of the application.

HOTEL ACADEMY is a European collaborative project whose purpose is to develop digital tools, including mobile application, collaborative Virtual Reality tool and serious games and evaluate how they can be integrated in daily practices to train students and professionals in the field of Hospitality. The project also aims at evaluating the impact of the integration of such tools in the teaching and learning.

The research program gathers four organisations from three countries, it is coordinated by Manzavision and is supported by ERASMUS+ funding.

GATE:VET is a European collaborative project whose objective is to promote the use of game in vocational training. To this aim, the partners will develop and test a training program for teachers integrating a digital platform. This platform will be available online and on mobile phones. It will itself use game mechanics. The target users are teachers and trainers in Europe.

The research program gathers six organisations from five countries and is supported by ERASMUS+ funding. Manzavision is responsible for the creation of the platform.

Manzalab and the University of Paris 8 have joined forces in the context of the 3VIMPACTS project. The goal of this project is to study the impact of visual fatigue on learning through play with virtual reality. The uses of this technology are indeed increasing. Manzalab is also contributing to their development. However, few players in the sector question the consequences of these devices for the visual system.

This is the subject of the CIFRE thesis by Alexis Souchet and co-supervised by the Paragraphe and Manzalab laboratories.

Videos collected and analyzed by law enforcement represent a critical resource for criminal investigations and terrorist acts. Recent events that occurred in London, Nice, Paris, Barcelona and Brussels have further demonstrated the importance of video recordings. At the same time, the volume of video available is constantly increasing due to the proliferation of recording and videosurveillance equipment in public and private spaces, cameras worn by police officers, smartphones, etc.

The VICTORIA project, initiated in May 2017 for a period of 3 years with the support of the European Commission, addresses this need for video analysis and aims to offer a platform compliant with ethical and regulatory constraints to speed up data processing and thus facilitate the work of the police.

The XPRIZE Global Learning Challenge competition focuses on the most wonderful challenge: to create applications to allow kids around the world to learn to read, write and count autonomously.

As part of its participation in the XPRIZE competition, Manzalab has assembled a team of developers, graphic designers and application experts. This team is led by Cassandra Potier Watkins, a cognitive science researcher under the supervision of Prof. Dehaene. She manages the Kalulu project, a suite of educational and fun open-source applications available in English, French and Swahili.

The project has also obtained support from the Future Investment Program in the context of the LUDO project.

REUs is an FUI project accredited by the competition clusters Minalogic, Cap Digital, TES and Aerospace Valley.

It is based on a reflection about the concept of work meetings, events that are well known to all of us in our daily professional lives that take up a good amount of our time. REUs aims to build tools to improve the efficiency of meetings by preparing documents downstream.

Neurostars is a collaborative project funded by the European research program EUROSTARS that brings together six entities located in France and the Netherlands.

The goal of this project is to develop a tool to facilitate the visualization of a complex structure: the human brain.

A realistic and highly detailed representation of the brain, resulting from the combination of images from various sources, will be presented in 3D and in color within an immersive and interactive virtual environment.

A unique tool for preparing interventions or exploring the brain for information or training purposes that will facilitate exchanges between healthcare teams, patients and their families.

A unique tool to prepare for interventions or explore the brain for informative or educational purposes, which will facilitate communication between medical teams and patients.

STEAM ("Serious game to Train Experts in Advanced Multimodality") is a European collaborative project stemming from the observation that European teaching staff are not sufficiently trained in the diversity of digital tools.

The goal of this project is therefore to create a serious game intended to train teachers in mastering these innovative digital tools and integrating them into their teaching approach ("multimodality").

This research program coordinated by Manzalab brings together five entities in five different countries and benefits from the support of the European ERASMUS+ program.

ELAN pour la Lecture (Play-based Learning Environment based on Neuroscience) is a project intended to promote the learning of reading in elementary and primary schools.

This educational game was developed based on the work of Prof. Stanislas Dehaene in close collaboration with the teams of INSERM</ CEA. Dehaene's Four Pillars of Learning theory: effective learning involves attention, active engagement, feedback and repetition.

ELAN pour la lecture is above all a game of exploration: children travel through an imaginary country consisting of islands to be discovered, accompanied by their friend Savant, the Toucan. Each island offers mini-games and lessons that help to beautify the island.

ELAN pour la lecture is partly funded by the Future Investments program coordinated by Education Nationale.

This simulator combines helicopter control and EEG (electroencephalogram) activity measurement. It's designed as an adaptive training tool capable of taking into account learners' EEG feedback in order to adapt the level of difficulty of the proposed course.

The aim of this project is to better understand learning mechanisms and in particular to identify the stage from which learners start performing flight tasks automatically.

The goal: to offer a mediation tool to professionals dealing with adolescents experiencing major psychological and behavioral difficulties.

To improve the verbal exchange capacities of the various players, to better manage conflict situations with these young patients.

CLASH BACK is a behavioral simulator of conflict between teenagers and their parents, focusing on themes of daily life.

- Situations, characters and places representing everyday life

- Missions with goals (get an outing accepted, get your school report signed, etc.)

- Management of the emotional state of the characters (anger, tension, empathy, etc.)

- A vocabulary of colors, shapes and lights that modify the virtual environment: anger reddens the scene, for example.